Yankees notebook: Mark Teixeira finally swinging again

11:05 PM,
Apr. 17, 2013

Second baseman Robinson Cano, left, and first baseman Mark Teixeira pose with their Gold Glove awards.

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There's a bat inside Mark Teixeira's office at his Connecticut home, and that has been one tantalizing piece of equipment.

"Every time I check my email or get something in my office, I pick it up and just like twirl it around a little bit," Teixeira said, "because I haven't had a bat in my hand in a long time. It's very tough."

That's what happens when you partially tear the tendon sheath in your right wrist prepping for the World Baseball Classic and are lost from eight to 10 weeks. But the Yankees' switch-hitting first baseman has finally gotten back in the swing of things the last two days, sort of. ...